The Friday Informer: I Call Dibs on Anna Nicole Smith—The Opera

Do composers living in warm climates write faster music than those in the Arctic? I don’t know how you all feel about cantometrics, but New York has finally succumbed to actual winter temperatures, and it seems to have us all moving a little more slowly. Icy walkways, bulky layers, and our fiendish attachments to our iPods do pose some risks, but our civic leaders are working tirelessly to protect us from our music. Now if only they’d return the favor and protect us from their music. Microtones do not become the Senator. [via Slate]

A major event in the UK arts calendar will be the premiere of Anna
Nicole a new work by British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and writerRichard Thomas on Thursday 17 February 2011. With his worldwide
reputation as one of the leading composers of our time, Turnage’s
previous operas include Greek (1988) and The Silver Tassie (2004). A
musician and comedian as well as a writer, Thomas was one of the
co-creators of the controversial West End hit Jerry Springer: the
Opera. Their new work looks at the high-profile celebrity lifestyle of
the American glamour model and actress Anna Nicole Smith, who died in
2007 after an apparent drug overdose at the age of 39. Leading
director Richard Jones stages the production, with Royal Opera music
director Antonio Pappano conducting and Dutch soprano Eva-Maria
Westbroek as Anna Nicole.

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